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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Self-Destruction Deleting Partial Data for One Recipient

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Unsubscribed User
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Why to use ids.remove?

At 0:45 Ben added "ids.remove(ParseUser.getCurrentUser().getObjectId())". I dont understand why He added it, if ids gets reasigned by the "message.getList(ParseConstants.KEY_RECIPIENT_IDS) each time."

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Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
10,142 Points
Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
10,142 Points

It does not appear that line of code is required. Like you said, ids is declared each time the code is executed. Perhaps if you had further work to perform with the list you would need to update ids, however, in this case we do not.